Porting Tinn to Pascal

Tinn (Tiny Neural Network) is a 200 line dependency free neural network library written in C. Being written in C and being less than 200 lines of code makes it a perfect candidate for porting over to Pascal.

Initially I did a direct port - function for function. It worked very nicely, but was much much slower than the original C version. I have started "Pascalifying" the code base - first job was turning it into a TObject descendant which sadly didn't increase speed all that much - still I'm sure there is plenty more optimisation to be done. Oddly enough I've had the best results from Delphi 7!

If you're interested in following the progress then you can find the source on github.

Posted in pascal on 2018-12-19 21:11:03